Burkina Faso In 9 out of 12 district years with declaration of an epidemic at the district level a localised epidemic was identified in at least one health centre.
The modelled outbreak with significantly increased control measures activated indicated that it was the expansion of control interventions starting in January 2009, following declaration of the outbreak as an epidemic, which caused the decline in weekly case numbers and eventually a rapid collapse of the outbreak.
The study was carried out in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, after declaration of an epidemic of N. meningitidis serogroup A in 2007.
Since WHO's declaration of the end of the SARS epidemic, 17 cases of laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV infection have been reported.
Districts notifying weekly incidences of 5 cases/100,000 persons were considered in alert, and those notifying weekly incidences of 15 cases/100,000 persons were considered in epidemic (6 ); however, specific conditions enabled declaration of an epidemic at a threshold of 10 cases/100,000 persons.
African leaders have re-doubled their commitment in the face of the epidemic, as evidenced in recent declarations at the African Union summit by the AU's top leadership.
The declarations of the function symbols follow.
Since the WHO declaration of a pandemic, the new H1N1/09 virus spread across the globe, causing epidemics in most countries [1].
"Today, we have the commitment," and "our resources are increasing," Secretary General Kofi Annan said at a meeting following up the declaration, which contained deadlines for battling the epidemic.
and "The Declaration," a song that uses the text of the Declaration of Independence as lyrics.
